A researcher in Glasgow has created "cell-like bubbles" from metal, and given them properties that usually belong to biological life, reports New Scientist's Katharine Sanderson. The building blocks for these metal cells, or polyoxometalates, are metal atoms linked to oxygen and phosphorus.
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